Principal at Big Pi Ventures
Check size: €500K-€3M initial investments for Melina's early-stage work; Big Pi's wider family-of-funds range extends to €30M.
Melina invests in early-stage AI, robotics, B2B SaaS, life sciences, and climate technology. Her engineering and deep-learning background supports technical diligence, while her strategy-and-operations experience informs evaluation of commercial paths, deal structure, and the practical support a technical founding team needs after investment.
Explain the core technical breakthrough in enough depth for diligence, then connect it to a specific customer problem, a large international market, and a realistic commercialization plan. Cover team composition, defensibility, technical milestones, initial go-to-market evidence, and the exact operating or strategic help needed after the round.
Technically ambitious founders and natural problem-solvers who can explain how a breakthrough becomes a useful marketable product, pair product innovation with business-development capability, and pursue a sufficiently large international market.
Evaluate the technical advance and its defensibility together with the customer problem, market size, team coverage, deal structure, and path from prototype to a scalable commercial product.
For embodied or robotic AI, prioritize direct evidence from deployed systems and the builders operating them: what works, what fails, and what technical bottleneck must be cleared next.
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